LETTER TO A STRANGER by Elswyth Thane New York/Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Little, Brown and Company, (1954). First edition (stated). A near fine copy; in a very good, illustrated dust jacket with mild fading to the spine, tiny tears, nicks and creases to the crown of the spine, and several short or tiny tears to the upper front cover. Jacket flap price of $3.50 still intact. Thane was a novelist, playwright, journalist, and Hollywood screenwriter. When she was 27 years old she married 50-year-old naturalist and explorer William Beebe. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the guests at the wedding. "The letter was written by a total stranger who signed herself Joanna Marshall. It looked pretty much like a hundred other fan letters, forwarded from the publishers' office. But even after Eve Endicott read it more than once and when she had answered it, she found she still could not forget it. Tad Benson, who published her books, advised her that it was none of her business how old Joanna Marshall was or why she seemed to be a prisoner in her father's house. Tad said Beaumont Marshall was an artist living in the same CT community as himself - thought by those who knew him to be more than eccentric. Tad had never heard about a daughter but knew Marshall's wife had left him years ago. "Couple of psychopaths, probably," Tad said. "Don't get involved with anything like that." But Eve had to know the rest of the story."--WorldCat. Unusual in the first edition in such nice condition--and with the elusive dust jacket! PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.